Time spent alone awakened Linda’s keen sensitivity to life and a deep faith that blesses her with strength, love, and insight. Also, her father, a physician, who read and sang for his family each day, filled her heart with the joy and rhythm of words and music–plus he inspired her with his love of learning, his dedication to healing, and the wonder of the special roses he grew. She remembers her mother pausing to watch the sunsets and noting the changing colors of the seasons. Linda, in turn, invites you take time to notice the brilliant ways that light flashes on a hummingbird’s wings. Then, truly feel the gentle touch and scent of a rose and breathe in the deep fragrance of a gardenia the gives its grace to you and asks for nothing in return…

Luke Rickford, Linda’s Editor writes: 

“As the sun is rising, Linda likes to go outside and breathe in the Light that fill her hands and soul with the life that growing and singing all around her. What can be made holy today by her vision and insight?  What is made whole by the words inside her poetry? Her poems invite you to draw close to nature –and to experience her breadth of wonder and feeling through the brilliance she gives back to life through her words… Carefully she creates her art of poetry –choosing where to place each precious word to catch the light as she writes. She brings her poetry to others to share where she has been and what the Light has revealed to her.”

Linda spent years teaching English and Creative Writing and heading the English Department and writing curriculum for the Palo Alto School District. She earned her BA in English at the University of Washington, her MA in English Education at Stanford University, and her MA in Marriage and Family Counseling from the University of Santa Clara (all with highest honors). She also wrote books for Prentice Hall, including Imagination and Language, a book that helps writers draw on both hemispheres of their mind as they write (to be republished in 2027). Today, Linda devotes herself to her therapy work, writing, and doing poetry readings and workshops for people of all ages to inspire their creative abilities.